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tel·e·graph

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–noun

1.	an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, esp. by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.

2.	Nautical. an apparatus, usually mechanical, for transmitting and receiving orders between the bridge of a ship and the engine room or some other part of the engineering department.

3.	a telegraphic message.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to transmit or send (a message) by telegraph.

5.	to send a message to (a person) by telegraph.

6.	Informal. to divulge or indicate unwittingly (one's intention, next offensive move, etc.), as to an opponent or to an audience; broadcast: The fighter telegraphed his punch and his opponent was able to parry it. If you act nervous too early in the scene, you'll telegraph the character's guilt.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to send a message by telegraph.

[Origin: < F télégraphe (1792) a kind of manual signaling device; see tele-¹, -graph

]

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te·leg·ra·pher

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n.

A communications system that transmits and receives simple unmodulated electric impulses, especially one in which the transmission and reception stations are directly connected by wires.
A message transmitted by telegraph; a telegram.

v. tel·e·graphed, tel·e·graph·ing, tel·e·graphs

v. tr.

To transmit (a message) by telegraph.
To send or convey a message to (a recipient) by telegraph.
1. To make known (a feeling or an attitude, for example) by nonverbal means: telegraphed her derision with a smirk.
2. To make known (an intended action, for example) in advance or unintentionally: By massing troops on the border, the enemy telegraphed its intended invasion to the target country.

v. intr.
To send or transmit a telegram.

te·leg'ra·pher (tə-lěg'rə-fər), te·leg'ra·phist (-fĭst) n.

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telegrapher
noun
someone who transmits messages by telegraph

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teˈlegrapher [-ˈle-, -ˈle-] nouns

a person who operates a telegraph

Arabic:	عامِل التِّلغراف
Chinese (Simplified):	报务员
Chinese (Traditional):	報務員
Czech:	telegrafista
Danish:	telegrafist
Dutch:	telegrafist
Estonian:	telegrafist
Finnish:	sähköttäjä
French:	télégraphiste
German:	der, *die Telegraphist(in)
Greek:	τηλεγραφητής
Icelandic:	símritari, loftskeytamaður
Indonesian:	operator telegrap
Italian:	telegrafista

Japanese:	電信係
Latvian:	telegrāfists
Lithuanian:	telegrafistas
Norwegian:	telegrafist
Polish:	telegrafista
Portuguese (Brazil):	telegrafista
Portuguese (Portugal):	telegrafista
Romanian:	telegrafist
Russian:	телеграфист
Slovak:	telegrafista
Slovenian:	telegrafist
Spanish:	telegrafista
Swedish:	telegrafist
Turkish:	telgraf operatörü